Democrats could not convince the slave freeing Republicans in the past of much of anything, thus they decided to wage their victory through war, which they believed to be handily won over soon enough. Didn’t happen. But afterwards, they had to settle on “other” methods to achieve the same ends, like Jim Crow, Democrat owned serfs in Southern states, etc.

While the South matured and broke out of that trap, the blacks are more and more becoming slaves their ancestors were not.

Until somebody frees Republicans from the shackles of Leftist puppet mastery and frees the various minorities, Jews, blacks, and what not from Leftist slavery and serfdom, “elections” in this United States of America, matter pretty much for zip.

Despite the fact that it is ‘left wing’ this remains true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_BoAXopS54

We are all passengers on a ship of fools.

No it is not. But it is in many ways merely putting a few more mattresses between the princess and the pea.

I don’t disagree per se as they do not want a truly free market, fairly but minimally regulated. They are fighting to protect cronyism, their own power in the halls of government and corporate interests, which BTW is not inherently fascist.

But as there is a distinction between what the republicans seek to preserve, which however bastardized does allow for entrepreneurship… and what democrats seek, which is tightly regulated socialism and what the committed left seeks, which is communism… I find your assertion insufficiently precise.

A return to real capitalism is perhaps possible under the republicans, if unlikely. Once they run out of other people’s money, it might even be possible under socialism. But in a world where the US is no longer free, there is no going back from Communism except through violent revolution.

They’re fighting to protect cronyism, corporatism (aka fascism), and their own power in the halls of government.

They’re just not quite as blatant about it as the Democrats.

But capitalism, no. The very last thing the political class wants is a truly free market, because that would empower productive members of society rather than government grifters and parasites.

A very salient distinction, one that I have not seen made so explicitly (and, at the same time, so succinctly).

Great observation.

Members of Liberal Site Calls for Jewish “Extermination,” Unironically Proclaim Israel to be “Nazis”

http://www.punditpress.com/2013/01/members-of-liberal-site-calls-for.html

The TEA party has tried that tactic since its formation, it has had decidedly limited success.

The GOP is not controlled by men and women of conservative principle, to which they pay mere lip service but by those who wish to maintain the financial status quo. They fight solely to protect capitalism, not limited government.

For a variety of reasons the tactic of sufficient persuasion is doomed to failure. There is no ‘convincing’ a lemming to avoid its self-destruction. The left has spent the last 40+ years turning much of the American electorate into ignorant, naive, gullible lemmings. The ignorance is too broad, the entitlement too entrenched and the narcissistic arrogance too pervasive. Liberals, the left’s useful idiots, have now reached the necessity of complete denial as a psychological survival strategy. The 2012 election and Ed Koch and Alan Dershowitz’s reaction of disappointment but continued support for Obama, after the appointment of Chuck Hagel perfectly illustrates this assertion.

We have reached a demographic tipping point and the inmates are now running the asylum.

The left has, through popular culture and the schools, inculcated sloth, envy and a sense of narcissistic entitlement into many Americans and the left is using class warfare to incrementally destroy its productive class.

Polls indicate that a substantial number of Americans want Europe’s cradle to grave nanny state. They are willing to trade the promise of security for their liberties and are in complete denial that, that is the bargain that they are agreeing too.

Obama and the left will continue to reduce our military expenditures and, seize through taxes more and more income, all to fund the ever growing entitlement state. They will continue to raise spending to continue to devalue the dollar. They will continue to raise the death tax so as to seize ever greater amounts of American’s inherited assets.

Hollywood, the media and academia will continue their cultural assault upon America’s cultural foundations.

During the next 4 years the make-up of the Supreme Court may suffer irrevocable transformation.

Efforts will continue in the UN through treaties to restrict and undermine America’s national sovereignty.

The assault is too comprehensive to be accidental.

The destruction of America is proceeding according to the left’s planned strategy.

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincon

Wealth is created when those things that people need and will pay for are produced. Adam Smith was brilliant enough to recognize that many people pursuing their own ends, while seemingly undirected, creates more wealth than a centrally directed system. But that gets no traction when the polity are duped by the progressive media machine.